New player experience- is it worth getting into MEAMP at this point?

I played a bunch of MEA when it launched but due to disappointment with the state of the game at launch and real life issues had to put Mass Effect and gaming in general on a backburner for a while. Now that things have stabilized a bit and the game got patched more I was thinking of getting back to some MEA.


Wanted to ask how the game has changed since 1.06, since that's when I stopped playing, and what is the state of the playerbase?

Many thanks for all responses.

Took the advice and played a good 3-4 hours of MEA and it's a mixed bag. Moment to moment gameplay is fun. Powers and such are great, weapons feel a hell of a lot better and more objectives and map variety (when lobbies exist, more on that later) made the game feel fresh. Headshots are still a roll of the dice. Especially on moving targets. Sometimes they work as intended, other times I'm jamming my Hornet up against a Krogan's skull and it still registers as bodyshots or sometimes shooting someone in the shoulder registers as a headshot. Go figure.

Playerbase took a dive from the looks of it. I wasn't playing on North American prime time so take it as you will but finding gold lobbies that were not set to either the daily APEX or just Icebreaker was a chore. Out of about 12 or so rounds I played, 9 were Icebreaker. Looking for any other map just sent me to my own lobby with no one else joining in. At least the new Icebreaker "day" version is much nicer to look at than vanilla Icebreaker.

Overall it was an alright experience. Hopefully there are more people around during NA primetime because the gameplay is fun enough. Probably won't keep me hooked for 1500 hours like ME3, but if the lobbies are there, I can easily see myself jumping in for some MEA goodness occasionally to get my co op shooter fix.